Chapter 146 Respected

• After pondering for a moment, Melody explained, “Well, this is what happened—when they captured me, they tied me up. It just so happened that they were calculating their harvest, and it appears that they’ve got to offer a portion of their yields to Thrashing Knives Sect as tribute every harvest.”
• “Hmm?”
• “This time, they harvested 800 thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes. They’ve got to give Thrashing Knives Sect three-tenth and leave one-tenth for the village storehouse before distributing the rest to the villagers. They had no idea how to calculate this, so they argued until they were red in the face. At that time, I interjected and said that it was 240 thousand and 80 thousand kilograms respectively, but they told me to shut up. Later, they counted again and again and even had someone bring over an abacus. In the end, the figures turned out to be precisely 240 thousand and 80 thousand kilograms.”